About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Monday, April 30, 2007

April 30......

April 30 is the 120th (121st in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 245 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Dissent "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." — Thomas Jefferson

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Liberal Bashing "The inevitable logic of the liberal position is to be for treason." — Ann Coulter, from her book all about liberal treachery

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 418 Roman Emperor Honorius (who ruled 395-423) issued a decree denouncing Pelagianism, which taught that humanity can take the initial and fundamental steps toward salvation by its own efforts, apart from divine grace.

● 711 - Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).

● 1888 - Hailstones kill about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi India

● 1889 - 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration

● 1894 - Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.

● 1900 - Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor. This was done without the consent of the Hawaiians of course.

● 1900 - Train engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in an effort to save the passengers. (The event was immortalized in song.)

● 1902 - Theodore Schultz, the American economist who won a Nobel Prize for his important studies of the human factor in the workplace, was born.

● 1904 - Birth of John T. Benson, Jr, religious composer and former president of Heartwarming Music in Nashville. His best-known sacred composition was the hymn, "Love Lifted Me."

● 1904 - Ice cream cone makes its debut

● 1911 - Portugal approves woman suffrage

● 1917 - American Friends Service Committee founded.

● 1919 - Germany - Troops crush the revolutionaries who have declared a Republic in Bavaria state; over the next three days they will kill over 700.

● 1943 - World War II: Operation Mincemeat – The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.

● 1944 - English scholar J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in a letter: 'Evil labors with vast powers and perpetual success -- in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. So it is in general, and so it is in our own lives.'

● 1945 - Concentration camp München-Allag freed

● 1945 - Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the Bolsheviks

● 1945 - Red Army occupies Demmin

● 1945 - Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin

● 1945 - Russian Army frees Ravensbrück concentration camp

● 1945 - US troops attack the Elbe

● 1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. {The sex must have been really, really good or really, really bad. Suicide seems an awful drastic alternative to divorce.}

● 1968 - U.S. Marines attacked a division of North Vietnamese in the village of Dai Do.

● 1970 - Announcement of secret U.S. bombing and invasion of previously neutral Cambodia prompts demonstrations at college campuses across U.S. Four days before Kent State, National Guard troops fire shotguns on protesters at Ohio State University in Columbus, injuring seven. One thousand march in downtown Seattle; protesters trash ROTC offices at the University of Washington.

● 1978 - "Rock Against Racism" march and concert, headlined by The Clash, Hackney, England. The event, spurred by the explosion of politicized punk bands, was a direct response to 1976 on-stage comments by Eric Clapton -- a man who made millions from blues-based rock and a cover of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" -- that black immigrants in Britain should be "sent home."

● 1992 - A Univ. of Washington rally protesting the verdict acquitting Rodney King's assailants marches off campus and downtown via Interstate 5. Two nights of angry disturbances in Seattle result in five injuries and dozens of arrests.

● 1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. President to visit Northern Ireland.

● 1996 - About 120 activists arrested over the next eight days in Washington, D.C., in support of a White House fast by Sister Diana Ortiz. Ortiz was kidnapped, tortured, and raped by Guatemalan Army officers in 1989; she was fasting to demand that the U.S. government release information on her assailants.

● 1998 - NATO was expanded to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The three nations were formally admitted the following April at NATO's 50th anniversary summit.

● 1998 - United and Delta airlines announced their alliance that would give them control of 1/3 of all U.S. passenger seats.

● 1998 - In the U.S., Federal regulators fined a contractor $2.25 million for improper handling of oxygen canisters on ValuJet that crashed in the Florida Everglades in 1996.

● 1999 - Dozens injured in Soho nail bomb; Two people are killed and at least 30 injured in the third nail-bomb attack in London in two weeks.

● 1999 - Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10.

● 2001 - Chandra Levy was last seen in Washington, DC. Her remains were found in Rock Creek Park on May 22, 2002. California Congressman Gary Condit was questioned in the case due to his relationship with Levy.

● 2001 - The Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli conflict is published.

● 2002 - A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf for another five years.

● 2003 - Mahmoud Abbas took office as the first Palestinian prime minister. International mediators presented Israeli and Palestinian leaders with a "road map" to peace.

● 2003 - The U.S. Navy withdrew from its disputed Vieques bombing range in Puerto Rico.

● 2004 - Former NBA star Jayson Williams was acquitted of aggravated manslaughter in the shotgun slaying of a limousine driver at his New Jersey mansion, but found guilty of trying to cover up the shooting.

● 2005 - Missing Georgia woman Jennifer Wilbanks turned up in Albuquerque, N.M., originally claiming to have been abducted but then admitting she was a "runaway bride."

● Roman Catholic:● St. Adjutor● St. Aimo● St. Ajuture● St. Aphrodisius● St. Ciarán of Clonsost● St. Cynwl● St. Desideratus● St. Donatus● St. Eutropius● St. Forannan● St. Gerard Miles● St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo● St. Lawrence of Novara● St. Louis von Bruck● Sts. Marianus and James, martyrs in Numidia in 259● St. Maximus, 3rd century martyr● St. Pius V, Pope (1566-72)● St. Pomponius● St. Suitbert the Younger (d. 807)● Bl. Francis Dickenson● Bl. Hildegard● Bl. Miles Gerard● Bl. Radolf of Affligem● Bl. Rosemonde

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 17 (Civil Date: April 30)● Hieromartyr Simeon, Bishop in Persia, and those with him: Martyrs Abdechalas and Ananias, presbyters, Usthazanes, Fusicus (Pusicius), Ascitrea, and Azat the eunuch.● Martyr Adrian of Corinth.● St. Acacius, Bishop of Melitene.● St. Zosimas, abbot of Solovki.● St. Agapitus, pope of Rome.● Opening of the Relics of St. Alexander, abbot of Svir.● St. Macarius of Corinth.● Repose of Blessed Paisius, fool-for-Christ of the Kiev Caves (1893).

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